Mohammed Fahim

Mohammed Fahim (1957-9 March 2014) was Vice President of Afghanistan from 2009 to 2014, having served as Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2004.

Biography
Mohammed Fahim was born to a Sunni Islamic Tajik family in Omarz, Panjshir Province, in Afghanistan in 1957. Fahim fought in the Soviet-Afghan War as a fighter for the Mujahideen, and after the war he fought for the Northern Alliance opposition against the extremist Taliban government.

In 2001, when the Afghan Northern Alliance took back control of the country, he became Minister of Defense, serving one term. President Hamid Karzai made him a "Marshal" of the Afghan National Army, and he later became the Vice Presidentin 2009. He died in 2014.